The Underground Sea

John Berger author Matthew Harle editor Tom Overton editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Canongate Books

Publishing:10th Apr '25

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 10th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Underground Sea cover

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today: a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action.

Including essays, transcripts, interviews and images, it places itself in the heart of a Derbyshire mining village, with reflections on the everyday life of a typical pit community.

Berger's commitment to the mining communities was more than emotional, it was visceral * * New Statesman * *
A timely collection with still-striking thoughts * * Irish Times * *
A profound tribute to working-class struggles . . . The words are invariably sage, the language noble yet pointedly accessible, descriptions of intense poverty and extraordinarily dangerous work are powerful * * Buzz Magazine * *
Praise for John Berger: 'John Berger seems to me peerless -- SUSAN SONTAG
John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. I do not say this lightly -- ARUNDHATI ROY
A few minutes with Berger and a better world, a better outcome, wasn't fantasy or imaginary, it was impetus - possible, feasible, urgent and clear . . . Berger's genius is its own fertile continuum - radical, brilliant, gentle, uncompromising -- ALI SMITH
Few people have possessed such clarity, nor yoked it to such persistently generous political ends -- OLIVIA LAING
The writer I admired above all others . . . Whatever their form or subject [Berger's] books are jam-packed with observations so precise and delicate that they double as ideas - and vice versa -- GEOFF DYER
There are a few authors that can change the way you look at the world through their writing and John Berger is one of them -- JARVIS COCKER
An ongoing inspiration as to how books should be written (and photography used) -- ALAIN de BOTTON

ISBN: 9781837260386

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

128 pages

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